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The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s



  Lea Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at 

the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of _The Wages of 

Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1929-1942 (_UC Press) and 

_Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film._



http://go.ucpress.edu/Jacobs



"Lea Jacobs's groundbreaking book examines the crucial films, both 

well-known and until now obscure, that marked a decisive shift in 

1920s American cinematic sensibility and taste-from 'hokum' to 

'sophistication,' a change that would inflect future Hollywood 

filmmaking. All serious scholars of American film history will read 

this book with admiration and find its insights as well as its 

methods an inspiration."-Matthew Bernstein, author of _Walter Wanger: 

Hollywood Independent_





_The Decline of Sentiment _seeks to characterize the radical shifts 

in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon 

extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the day, 

Lea Jacobs documents the films and film genres that were considered 

old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative and up-to-date, and 

looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, 

Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell, among many others. 

Her analysis-focusing on the influence of literary naturalism on the 

cinema, the emergence of sophisticated comedy, and the progressive 

alteration of the male adventure story and the seduction plot-is a 

comprehensive account of the modernization of classical Hollywood 

film style and narrative form.



Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 

available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Jacobs





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